Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-21A: Killings and Memories

Posted on 2014-05-26 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Good morning, and welcome to Memorial Day.  Please remember all the dead of war, not just American dead, and not just American war; especially those wars still going on. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-20E: Home front economics

Posted on 2014-05-24 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Good morning. Fighting off flu-like symptoms, here is a short commentary to end the week. I start out with a real zinger today.  There are lies, and then there are LIES and then there are BIG WHOPPING LIES.  Think this fits into the third category: the Fuehrer baldly states that Americans are better off today than we were in January of 2009, more than five years ago.  He went on in a speech on Monday night to talk about the “Land of Lincoln” and how that proved… something.  Lincoln WAS a quasi-socialist, a tyrant, and an Illinois lawyer, so there is a lot to be proven. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-20D: “Unintended consequences?”

Posted on 2014-05-22 by TPOL Nathan

Good morning… I think. Lots of fun things:

In Connecticut, one of the strongest (worst) police states of the Fifty States, the legislature has been “forced” (by the fear of losing federal money) to make chocolate milk illegal in schools, together with guns and common sense and sound thinking and teaching. The governor “may” veto it, but this is one of the many results of the Fuehrer’s Consort’s nanny-state whinging about keeping children from going hungry OR getting fat.  And if that is case in Connecticut, are the other Forty-Nine far behind? Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-20C: Veterans – worthless to FedGov

Posted on 2014-05-21 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Good morning!  Did you know that half the nation is in drought?  This is due to global warming, it is claimed, although this is typically the case for May for decades, and within the last decade there have been serious droughts very commonly in places like Texas and… California.  The Black Hills is NOT in drought right now, which is nice; neither is much of the rest of Wyoming.  Of course, the Four Corners is in moderate drought, which doesn’t bother us as much as it does people downstream. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-20B: cops and killing and more

Posted on 2014-05-20 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Good morning! It is a weekly, if not daily, litany of new crimes and wickedness perpetrated by gangs in this nation: gangs in blue uniforms (well, increasingly, black uniforms) with their fancy cars and high-tech equipment and always heavier and heavier weapons.  The Fuehrer has famously stated that we must remove military weapons from the nation, because they don’t belong on our streets.  At the same time, federal agencies put MORE and MORE automatic weapons in more and more American neighborhoods, business districts, and rural and frontier areas.  And give more and more powerful weapons, including armored vehicles, to local police forces.  These same forces that are afraid of vets coming back Stateside and building IED’s to take out cops.  Why would anyone what to attack cops?  Hmm… Continue reading →

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Please read this article: Why Liberty Dies

Posted on 2014-05-19 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Although I do not think that the author stated everything accurately, and is still too much a proponent of coercive government (as contrasted to self-government and voluntary association), this article is very much worth reading and sharing with those who are still thinking that these Fifty States are free nations.  And even those who believe that minarchy (minimal coercive government) is possible.

THIS IS WHY LIBERTY DIES
by Dr. Robert Owens, from Freedom Outpost
published 18 MAY 2014. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-20A: Government above the law

Posted on 2014-05-19 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Good morning.  After a long weekend and frustrations with government agencies across four states, I am in fine fettle today.  The growing power and even more rapidly growing abusive nature of governments from the westernmost island of Hawai’i state clear to the North Woods of Maine was very obvious in the past few days, especially the way in which police forces and other agents of the state conspire to bully, maim, and kill even children as well as other innocents – and even if some that they maim and kill are guilty of some crime, the cops’ use of force is NOT in any way self-defense.  Yet we see it happening more and more.  Here are a few examples. Continue reading →

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Living Alone, Staying Alive

Posted on 2014-05-18 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty

Last week I wrote about the priorities of training, with ongoing situational awareness and realistic analysis of your individual risk factors as potentially even more important than your gun handling skills, vital as those are. This week I’d like to start with one of the specific risk factors and some of the things that can be done to avoid problems and improve one’s overall readiness to respond appropriately if and when the trouble you don’t want comes along anyway. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #14-19E: Lies and stupidity in the news

Posted on 2014-05-15 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Good morning; the week seems to be progressing well.

After yesterday’s articles, I have one last example of lies and ignoring the truth.  It seems that people are in a panic about earthquakes.  In many places, politicians and environists have blamed a whole rash of quakes in the past couple of years on lateral drilling and fracking for oil and gas production. Others have, bizarrely enough, blamed it on “global climate disruption,” and of course, we know famously that one amazingly brilliant member of Congress thought that too many troops and equipment stationed on Guam would cause the earth to tilt (a quake, definitely.) Continue reading →

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Arlington House and the Many Crimes of Abraham Lincoln

Posted on 2014-05-15 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

This week is the 150th anniversary of the first military burial at what today is Arlington National Cemetery outside the District of Criminals in Virginia.  The site was, in 1863, known as Lee House, the Custis-Lee Plantation, or Arlington House.  It was the home and the plantation (“big farm,” in Southron) of a man well known for his service to his state and nation and opposed to slavery. Continue reading →

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